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Originally Posted by qzar9999
Actually Lincoln was very experienced. At FAIL. Haven't you seen those inspirational messages with a picture of him that say "Failed at business, failed at etc etc...AND THEN..."
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Actually, a lot of those claims about him are
wrong.
As for experience, Lincoln was a lawyer, a captain in the local militia, a state legislator and a US Rep. He also got about 100 electoral votes (of 363) as a VP candidate... that he didn't know he was nominated for and didn't campaign for.
One thing he didn't have, that would exclude any candidate in this day, was a lot of formal schooling. His formal education was 18 months, a person wouldn't even get a local council position with that much school nowadays.